The March Ten
Pieter Braun welcomed us into March on the Decathletes of Europe Calendar. And what a month it was! Here is the March Ten – the top decathlon-related stories, facts and…
The February Ten
Every month, I share a digest of ten decathlon-related facts, figures and features. Here’s my pick of the best of February 2019. 1 The first day of February was marked…
Fredrik Samuelsson, European Indoors, Glasgow 2019
The 1000m in Glasgow provided its fair share of Day 2 drama in the heptathlon. From Jiri Sykora’s reappearance on the start line after his pole vault injury, to Tim…
Andreas Bechmann, European Indoors, Glasgow 2019
Andreas Bechmann stormed the world rankings this year when he set a world lead of 6017 at the German championships in Halle in January. While that lead lasted only a…
Tim Duckworth, European Indoors, Glasgow 2019
I spoke to Tim on Sunday 3 March a few minutes after he won the silver medal in the heptathlon. Congratulations, you must be absolutely delighted. Yeah, I’m over the…
Glasgow 2019: A Game of Fire, Ice and Blood
From the Balkan lands in 2017, the European Indoor Championships moved west, to the frozen (well, wet) fringes of the continent. Beyond Hadrian’s Wall, Europe’s fearless decathletes arrived in Caledonia…